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A Statistical Equilibrium Approach to Adam Smith’s Labor Theory of Value

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Review of Radical Political Economics

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Abstract

Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 59-76, March 2026.
Adam Smith’s inquiry into the emergence and stability of the self-organization of the division of labor in commodity production and exchange is considered using statistical equilibrium methods from statistical physics. We develop a statistical equilibrium ...